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Day by Day

23 August 2008

Biden his time...

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Sweet nellie potellie. Joe Biden?

Did I hear correctly?

The eternal senator from Delaware? Posing windbag who had previously said he would never accept a nomination to the VP slot?

Barack, is this a joke?

He may have "strong foreign policy experience", but another way tosay this is that he has presided over a lot of hearings.

11 comments:

Being in Delaware this weekend when the announcement was made, you would be roundly chastised. He is very well respected and admired here, as he is in Washington. And you can hardly call it a left-wing state....

Consistently democratic leanings???? Left wing? You obviously have not been to many of the Methodist or Baptist Churches which bolster the small town Delaware landscape, or been listening to the "let's all vote for McCain All The Time" country music station which I have been this week... How is having no sales tax and depending on slot machine revenue "left wing"? This is a state with many, many retired military personel (brought here, for the most part, by that commie leftie no income tax thing...you know, like that other left wing bastion, Florida, a major air force base, and the base for financial insititutions such as Discover, and any other LLC which wants to avoid taxation....yeah, it is a state TEEMING with left wing liberals. Of course, there is that Rehoboth Beach problem, but most of them of them are Log Cabinettes anyway if they can afford a house here....so if they continually vote democratic, the guy must be doing something right..and how refreshing in that we have a two time married politician, a widower whose wife died tragically in an automobile accident, who remarried for a reason other than leaving his crippled or cancer ridden wife for a botoxed bimbo....

Oh yes, I forgot...Wilmington IS the San Francisco of the mid-atlantic region. Sorry, depsite Democrat, Republican, whatever, it is a pretty center, middle of the road, moderatly conservative state. More so I would guess than even Maryland or Pennsylvania. To declare it a hot-bed of left wing liberlism simply because it skews democratic it disingenious, to say the least.

Again, Capt, a personal battle with the citizenry doesn't always translate to the political leaning of the state. The facts of the matter are that the state has shifted towards the left in regards to policy and politics. This may have little to no impact on culture. It is a solid blue state with the usual patina of red in the outlying (non-metro) areas. Many living in Delaware commute to major urban areas (Philly, DC, NYC, Newark).

Just as there may be incidences of liberal behavior in a place like Salt Lake City, the overall tone is quite the opposite. The plural of anecdote is not data.

Again, sorry, but I know NOT ONE SOUL in Milford Delaware who commutes to any major city more than two hours away to work. Wilmington, perhaps, Philly, maybe...but NYC? DC? The entire state, with the exception of Wilmington,is an "outlying rural area". For democrats to be consistently elected in a state which is a as conservative as this, they must be doing something the conservatives like...I don't believe residents of Millsboro, Georgetown, Milton, et. al. would continually just bow down to the wills of the voters from Wilmington...again, hardly a liberal hotspot. So, it once more blurs the lines of "red" and "blue". And remember, Democrat does not always mean "libural", even in the perjorative sense...you have also failed to convince me how having no state salse tax, no state income tax, yet remaining fiscally sound through taxing the tourists and slot machines, is left leaning....

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